Week in Review 2024-01-29
First week commuting with my new Brompton bike; busy with meetings and planning; reflecting on newsletter schedule; links included.
Hello, regular readers, and welcome to the new ones!
This is Luis, with the latest issue of my newsletter. I write this newsletter to share my passion for photography, cities, and technology, along with interesting links I find over the week(s). This newsletter will be (as long as possible) free, but if you like to support it feel free to become a paid subscriber (pay what you want), or buy one of my photos.
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Last week I posted a super short week in review, it was that short that I didn't even sent an email. The updated was that it was my first week commuting with my new bike, a beautiful Brompton C-line. Since some time ago I wanted to have a Brompton, and finally last December I pulled the trigger and got it. I have to say that the integration between bicycle and public transportation is incredible, being able to just fold the bike and take it with me in the train allows me for some flexibility on my commutes, something very useful now that the NS trains are failing and running late due to maintenance and a lot of work along the tracks.
The Brompton (still looking for a name), during a snowy day in Amsterdam
On the professional side the week was quite busy with meetings, new kick-offs for projects, meeting with clients, and planning for some work to be done during the next couple of months. However, I also spent some time configuring MKdocs and figuring out how to show the openAPI documentation from the API we are building in the MKdocs served documentation, so far a proof of concept is working.
This week I also reflected a little bit on this newsletter. My original idea was to send two issues per week, the Week in Review on Mondays, and some more professional/tech-oriented issue on Thursdays. However, I have been failing in doing so. I realized that I stopped doing it during the summer and never took it back. I will get back to it, so expect some new posts more city/tech oriented by this Thursday.
Now to the links of the week:
Software
- Hey note A dedicated scratchpad for developers via quantum of sollazzo
Web
- You are never taught how to build quality software // As a semi-self taught developer testing was something that was never taught formally, but now every project I do has to be tested, it saves a lot of time and improves the quality of the work.
- Exploring codespaces as temporary dev containers via Simon Willson
Weeknotes
Youtube
- Decoding Math's Famous Fractal: The Mandelbrot Set // Great video by Quanta Magazine
Thanks for reading!
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About this newsletter
I'm Luis Natera, a software developer, network scientist, and data/cities/tech nerd. I have an interdisciplinary trajectory (architecture -> sociocultural studies -> network science -> software development), you can read more about me and my career here.
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